First and Last Fic Meme

Jan. 8th, 2026 10:14 pm
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Meme taken from [personal profile] meridian_rose via [personal profile] calliopes_pen:

Take your last 5* fanfics and copy their first and last lines. We have to guess what the story is about!

*you can go back as far as you like to find fanfics where it's not obvious what's happened.


(I'm also using completed works.)

1. First: He walks up the steps to the Niebolt House knowing that what he’s doing is stupid.

Last: He closes his eyes and lifts his hand to his mouth, wraps his lips around his fingers and tastes cotton candy, popcorn, and sickly-sweet death on his skin.

2. First:George pulls his car into the cemetery car park.

Last: He reaches up, and Pennywise grins as he cups its face in his hand.

3. First: The comment arrives on cue, one hour after his latest chapter hits the internet.

Last: A-Yuan doesn’t know it yet, but the sale of his novel – the one he’d took a chance on developing at the retreat – has earned him enough to buy a ring.

4. First: Their parents make her wear a veil every time she leaves her courtyard.

Last: She wants to be sure, before she has to send him back to Cang Qiong, that he’s given her the baby she so desperately wants.

5. First: The palanquin comes to a halt.

Last: He wonders what the monster of Bailu forest is doing now.

5soulmates Claim

Jan. 8th, 2026 04:32 pm
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I claimed Table #0 on [community profile] 5soulmates - a build-your-own table - for the IT (Muschietti movies) fandom, with Pennywise/Bill.

Table #0 - Custom
01. your soulmate is the only thing with colour in the world 02. dreamsharing 03. you can see through your soulmate's eyes 04. you can heal your soulmate's injuries 05. soulmate's name

Snowflake Challenge #4

Jan. 8th, 2026 03:30 pm
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Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


I think that, outside of fandom spaces like DW and Ao3, the fannish site I've been using the most recently has been the Stephen King Wiki. For obvious reasons, I guess XD Not to say that I don't like rewatching the movies/series at every opportunity, or reading the books, but when I'm writing, I don't always want to find a page or a clip for a quick detail.

(For anyone who is curious, it's possible to buy English-language novels here - and I have! - but availability is pretty much up to fate and ordering them to be imported can be prohibitively expensive. Yay, taxes.)

I was also involved in the creation of a zine last year, so I'm going to rec it here. I wrote for the ABCs of Problematic Kink zine, which can be read and downloaded here. My letter was N for Necrophilia (it's on pages 31 and 32), and this was the project that I finally decided to write MDZS fic for. It was really fun to be involved with: the community involved in creating the zine were all very friendly and supportive, and honestly, the whole thing was a blast. So, if you fancy having a bit extra short, kinky, dead-dove creations in your life, please take a look!

snowflake challenge #2

Jan. 7th, 2026 04:05 pm
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Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom
Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I don't have any pets of my own. Dogs are cute, but ever since I was a kid, I was more into cats. However, my parents didn't want a pet and to be honest, I'm self aware enough to know that I wouldn't be able to take care of one. The first apartment we lived in when we moved to California was nice in the sense that there were other people with pets my sister and I could play with. Our upstairs neighbor had four cats and two dogs! They were all very sweet.

My favorite fictional pet is definitely Salem from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. That sarcastic cat was really funny and definitely one of the best parts of the show. I also have a soft spot for Luna from Sailor Moon. I watched Homeward Bound way too many times and I love all three of them but Sassy was the best.

And of course, Shelby from Smallville (see icon). That dog was adorable and I was always happy when they let him pop in. He literally saved Clark's life! And he had good taste, because he liked Lois right away, even when Lois was ... apprehensive. My sister still calls him "Clarkie" though!

As far as my current fandom goes, I'm not trying to fall into stereotypes but I do stand by the belief that they should let Buck get a dog (so close in s8!) and Eddie get a cat. It would be adorable. :)
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What I Finished Reading This Week
Nothing, as three of the four books I'm reading this week are over 400 pages long.


What I Am Currently Reading

Skeul an Tavas - Ray Chubb & Nigel Roberts
I tackled most of the first chapter this week.

The Stations of the Sun – Ronald Hutton
I read the chapters on Christmas, the New Year, and Plough Monday.

Mannaz – Malene Sølvsten
This book is a giant, over-the-top potboiler and I am here for it.

After the Forest – Kell Woods
I was suspicious, given the cover, that this would be standard Tor-quality YA dreck, but it is very, very good indeed.


What I’m Reading Next

This week I acquired Ray Chubb and Nigel Roberts's Skeul An Tavas, Richard Marsh's Meath Folk Tales, and Angela Saini's Inferior.

これで以上です。
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Challenge #4: Rec Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!


A lot of fandom takes place digitally, everywhere from the websites where we read, watch, play, purchase, and talk about canon or merch to the computers on which we do much of the writing, watching, reading, vidding, and talking; the ISPs that get us online; and the processors we use to pay for all these things.

The recent Livejournal stuff is a good reminder, should anyone need one, that the majority of these entities do not by any means have users' best interests at heart. So why not make life a little harder for them, and happier for your own privacy and data security.

If you use Windows, here's a useful guide to getting rid of a bunch of the data security-destroying "features" and bloat on that operating system.

And if you'd like to get even more security conscious, The Opt Out Project has an excellent Cyber Cleanse Guide that will make your fandoming--be it consuming, creating, or discussing--a whole lot harder for the big tech and ecommerce giants to track, capture, and mine for your data.

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これで以上です。
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The actual-play audio drama podcast [youtube.com profile] worldsbeyondnumber just started a short science fiction campaign, Flight of the Icaron, and the first episode knocked it out of the park.

Official Summary:
This is the maiden voyage of the Icaron - Earth’s first S-Class Battle Station. This demonstration flight has been certified as routine by all relevant oversight bodies. Systems have been tested, personnel vetted, and contingencies reviewed. Passengers are reminded that the Icaron represents the highest standard of planetary defense engineering.

Please remain seated.

We have Aabria Iyengar as space mining mogul Kiki Davis, Brennan Lee Mulligan as engineer and father Andrei Dalca, and Erika Ishii as troubled young tragedy survivor Vera "Fishcakes" Lam—with Lou Wilson as GM, bringing some top-notch narration and NPC work that immediately has this feeling like a fully fledged universe full of characters with long histories and established relationships. There's a weight and rootedness to the worldbuilding and plot, but there's also still plenty of humour, especially in a recurring bit about trying to heist the good herbed Cheddar from a boring government party. I'm hooked, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!

current fandom events

Jan. 6th, 2026 06:59 pm
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge is currently running throughout the month of January! You can jump in and catch up anytime.

[community profile] gamechangerhr is a community dedicated to Game Changers book series/Heated Rivalry TV series. Discussions & fanworks on Rachel Reid's other Hockey Romance books are also allowed/welcome.

[community profile] bookclub_dw is a Monthly Book Club where a host will pick three books, participants vote on them, and everyone reads the winner/discusses later.

[community profile] moodthemeinayear is a low-pressure community dedicated to creating a custom mood theme

[community profile] allbingo is running a Public Domain Bingo Fest through the month of January. There are pre-made cards or you can create your own based on the available prompts.

[personal profile] candyheartsex, an exchange focused on both platonic and romantic relationships, is still open for sign-ups until January 7th, 11:59PM EST.

[community profile] purimgifts, an exchange focused on characters who are at least one of: women, Jewish, or persecuted (preferably by evil viziers), is open for both nominations and sign-ups until January 9th.

[community profile] rewrite_a_fic is a low-commitment, multi-fandom event dedicated to rewriting a fic you've written before. More info can be found HERE.

[community profile] fandom_empire is running a Monopoly Challenge. Sign-ups are open until January 15th, 11:59PM UTC.

[community profile] fancake's theme of the month is: crack treated seriously. Click on the banner below to learn more.

Photograph of a young Asian girl using a manual typewriter in an office and looking very serious as she stares straight into the camera. Her black hair is slicked into a low ponytail and her round glasses are so big they extend past her face. She's wearing a shirt and tie and an adult-sized yellow blazer that fits her like a dress, almost as if she has been shrunk. Text, in a typewriter font: Crack Treated Seriously, at Fancake.

[community profile] friending_memes is hosting a new one for the New Year!

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Click the banner to join us and make some new friends!

snowflake challenge #1

Jan. 6th, 2026 06:09 pm
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Challenge #1:
The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

I'm svgurl. I'm in my 30s, and have been actively part of fandom on and off since 2007, when I created my LJ. The SV part of my username stands for Smallville, which was my original fandom and I was very mono fandom for years.

My profile is up to date and gives a little background history and the fandoms/ships I'm interested in. I'm focused on 9-1-1/Buddie these days, but I still love MCU, Smallville, Gilmore Girls, and past favorites do come up from time to time.

I can be found on various places:
AO3: [archiveofourown.org profile] svgurl410
Tumblr: [tumblr.com profile] svgurl410
Discord: svgurl

I mod:
[community profile] comment_bingo: a bingo challenge that promotes commenting on other fanworks using the provided prompts
[community profile] rarefemslashexchange: a rare f/f fandom exchange that runs once a year

This is my 5th year participating in the Snowflake Challenge and I really love the way it gives everyone a chance to interact with people that you normally wouldn't. I am not comfortable with just going to someone's journal and talk to them out of the blue, so it's nice that this gives you a chance to do just that. I am looking forward to doing more of that and meet more people on here as well! :)
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Dear Candy Hearts Exchange Creator,


Thank you for creating something for me - I am so excited to see what you come up with! While I will include some thoughts about and prompts for the fandoms/dynamics I'm requesting, please don't feel constrained by this letter. I will enjoy and appreciate whatever you create for me in this exchange! This letter isn't obligatory at all, but if you like to have more input from your recipient, hopefully this will help. Some sections are much longer than others, but please don’t feel like I won’t appreciate something for one of the shorter sections just as much - everything I’m requesting I would be freaking delighted to receive, some fandoms/dynamics I just have an easier time rambling about.


I have a general author letter here if you want a look, and you can also find my auto ao3 app results here.

(Note: While only the sign-up DNWs are enforceable, if you are like me and take the time to read DNWs in letters, just know that my DNWs have evolved over time and I need to update my general letter post, so you can disregard that section and just rely on the DNWs in my sign-up. :3)



Fandoms Requested:

Nosferatu (2024)  •  IT (Films)  •  IT: Welcome to Derry  •  Skinwalkers  •  Hellraiser (2022)  •  Hemlock Grove (TV)  •  Barbarian (2022)  •  Dracula - Bram Stoker  •  The Crow (2024)  •  Crossover Fandoms


 

General Likes (noncomprehensive):

werewolf aus • codependency • obsessive/possessive behavior • monster romance • horror tropes • serial killer aus • mysteries • soulmate aus • reincarnation • reincarnation but make it horror • hurt/comfort • fluff • creepy fluff • toxic relationships • incest • polyamory • pining/mutual pining • emotional porn • sex as coping (unhealthy a plus) • hatefuck • enemies to lovers • enemies to enemies who fuck • power imbalances • age gaps • Dom/sub dynamics • informal BDSM • modern (but still horror/fantasy/whatever) aus • medieval aus • high fantasy aus • captivity/kidnapping • five times fic • men crying • found family • toxic found family • porn without plot • porn with so much plot • gothic horror • gothic romance • dungeons and dragons aus • chronicles/world of darkness aus



(Note: This letter includes possible spoilers for all fandoms)


 

Nosferatu (2024) )

 

 

IT (Films) )

 

 

IT: Welcome to Derry )

 

 

Skinwalkers (2006) )

 

 

Hellraiser (2022) )

 

 

Hemlock Grove (TV) )

 

 

Barbarian (2022) )

 


Dracula - Bram Stoker )

 

 

The Crow (2024) )

 

 

Crossover Fandoms )

 



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Games: Travel and vacation schedules meant no board game gathering this week.

Miscellaneous: A couple of longform articles:
  • A Ghost Estate and an Empty Grave
  • We Still Live in Fast Food Nation

    Music: First house session of the new year; with only four of us there, a lot of opportunities to call sets, which consisted of a good mix of familiar and new tunes. One of the guys is, unfortunately, a noodler, playing into any and every silence, which makes it very hard to start sets. I will just have to be assertive about playing over him if he's there next week.

    Roleplaying: Newest D&D Homebrew campaign had our "Beach Episode" holiday one shot this past weekend. As ever, it was an absolute blast. I sound like a broken record, but our DM is phenomenal: she gets such a good mix of role play, exploration, and combat into every session, and you'd never know she is--by her own admission--winging things half the time.

    I played a kobold bard and loved it. As with my goblin rogue, I chose this critter because I wasn't convinced it would be fun to play, and as with my goblin rogue, she has become one of my favorite characters. Turns out, I really enjoy playing characters that don't quite get larger humanoids. And bards are just so versatile. It's been...five years since I last played this class, and man it was fun throwing all those spells and buffs into the mix and watching what happens. We'll be back to our main characters in the next session, but since this one shot took place in the same universe I hope we'll have a chance to revisit these ones as well.

    Television: We finished Max Headroom S1. The final episode, Blanks, is my favorite of the season, and I'm always surprised by how long the show takes to introduce them compared to the movie. Having blanked myself from as much 21st century Big Tech as I can, I feel a special affinity with those guys. (And again, damn, this show was prescient: social media-elected leaders, the attention economy, doomscrolling, ransomware--it envisioned them all.) We'll probably get started on S2 tonight.

    I also watched the first three episodes of Heated Rivalry. This is a very horny show. (Which, no complaints there. XD) But I had been anticipating something more along the lines of Our Flag Means Death, where the romantic relationships are one element of a larger general narrative, and not the primary focus of the show. (I was surprised and honestly a bit bummed that the hockey is just window dressing. I'd been expecting an ice hockey story with a romance subplot versus a romance story on an ice hockey stage set.) That said, the production values are good and the actors have excellent chemistry that they--blessedly--maintain even in the show's most explicit scenes...which unfortunately has not always been the case with other such offerings (I'm looking at you, Our Flag Means Death).

    I don't feel particularly participatory about this show (yet?), but I am very much enjoying it and will probably wrap up the final three episodes this week.

    Video Games: Finished my first game of the year, Botanicula, which is a perennial favorite. It's just such a visually beautiful game, with a great soundtrack and really clever puzzles. As ever, I have to space out my playthroughs so I don't just immediately remember how to solve everything the next time I play it. I'm trying to decide if I want to dive straight into Samorost 2 or opt for something a little more serious (e.g., Darklands or Pentiment).

    これで以上です。
  • Fandom Snowflake Day 3

    Jan. 6th, 2026 10:05 pm
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    Challenge #3: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

    Wow. Where do I even start with fandom?
     
    Fandom changed the course of my life, for the better.
     
    Fandom was how I, a sheltered teen growing up in a conservative country, encountered gay couples for the first time, when shipper drama had me fleeing to the slash side of HP fandom. [personal profile] senmut and [personal profile] ilyena_sylph introduced me to poly couples with Happy’Verse, and I’m still friends with both of them to this day. The very kind encouragement of the folks in the World’s Finest Superbat comm gave me the courage to publish my own fic, first Harry Potter and then Superbat. And then Numb3rs fandom (and specifically numb3rs100 and its weekly prompts) taught me how to write. And then my beloved co-writers taught me how to write things longer than drabbles.
     
    I’ve lost a lot of those old fannish friends, whether they moved on from a fandom or I did, or when platforms shut down. But I’ve been lucky to keep some incredibly dear ones, and make excellent new friends, too. /waves to [personal profile] rhi and [personal profile] draconis, among others/
     
    Speaking of new friends, I want to talk about one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced, fandom-wise. 
     
    Numb3rs will always be the fandom of my heart. But it was never a particularly big show, and by 2022, the fandom was pretty much dead. And then someone (Hi Byrne!) wrote, and posted, an incredible story. Which inspired me to rewatch the series, and start writing again. And pull others in, too. And while Numb3rs will never be as active as it was, it’s still really cool to see the part I played in resurrecting it a little bit. 
     
    Another really awesome thing about fandom? Exchanges, and how much they’ve gotten me to push my limits. If it weren’t for exchange prompts, I would never have written To The Sticking Place, about Percy Weasley (and NOT a story I could have written in my 20s or without years of reading fic and meta). I definitely wouldn’t have been brave enough to think I could replicate Jane Austen’s style well enough to attempt thy love like a mark is stamp’d (I am a Jane/Colonel Fitzwilliam shipper to the end. Sorry, Bingles.) Or, even after shipper nonsense annoyed the fuck out of me, take on the challenge of writing The Goblin Emperor fic. Or write 10k of smut for an upcoming challenge, despite being ace. 

    Fandom also had me reading things I never would have encountered otherwise. Not just slash, although that's part of it. Thanks to fandom, I discovered drabbles, my beloved random fact fics, fic in the form of in-universe documents or meta, and a whole host of other things. I found writers who put the pros to shame, fics that made me gasp at the brilliance of their creators. I can safely say that reading fic has been an education, as much in what I should strive for as what not to do. 
     
    Fandom also helped me reclaim my identity. When Numb3rs first aired from 2005-2010, I explained away some of the egregious errors in the show’s depiction of Amita (who was a Tamil American character played by a very westernized half-German actress) by making her half-Rajasthani. (It still didn’t fix everything, but it was better than nothing). When I returned to writing Numb3rs in 2022, I made a decision. Amita would be 100% Tamil Brahmin, and that would be enough. 
     
    Never mind that Hollywood thinks all Indians speak Hindi, love Bollywood, and subsist on naan and butter chicken. Never mind neither the showrunners nor the actress bothered to give Amita a defined backstory until s4, and even then, they chose the most goatfucking stupid way of going about it possible. I would write Amita as she should have been written, like the second-generation Tamil American daughter of immigrant parents with a connection to the old country the show said she was while failing utterly to depict it accurately. 
     
    That conviction led to me writing saaptiya and 25 Random Facts About Amita Ramanujan, two fics I’m incredibly proud of, with the support and encouragement of non-Desi friends. And in doing so, I healed a wound that I never realized had been hurting me for nearly two decades. 
     
    So yeah. Thank you, fandom. For everything.
     
     
     

    Snowflake Challenge #3

    Jan. 6th, 2026 12:18 pm
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    two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

    Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

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